Sentences with phrase «result of a smear campaign»

The eurosceptic party says the stories are the result of a smear campaign originating in Conservative head office.

Political blogs in the Uk are extremely important — witness the resignation of Gordon brown's closest political adviser this weekend — brought down as a result of his smear campaign being rumbled by polblogger Guido Fawkes.

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For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

High school student David Hogg, who survived a mass shooting in February 2018 to become an advocate for more stringent gun control laws, has been the subject of several conspiracy theories and smear campaigns as a result.